The Greeks caught the Trojan spy Dolon and made him give away the Trojan’s line of battle …

To seaward, Carians … - inland, towards Thymbra, camp the Lycians …

From the sea to Thymbra. Strabo put Thymbra south of Ilium. This line…

The Greeks raised a tomb on the Troad to their greatest hero …

over your bones we reared a grand, noble tomb – devoted veterans all, Achaea’s combat forces – high on its jutting headland over Hellespont’s broad reach, a landmark…

Ida, still the mother of wild beasts, with all her springs, with timbered ridges, full of leaf-crowned oaks, and above fresh green grass, crocus and hyacinth, clover soaked with dew, with her peak, Gargaron, where the god of greatness, god…

At the Iliad’s end, Achilles reminds a defeated Priam the extent of his former prosperity …

you too, old man, we hear you prospered once:
as far as lesbos, Macar’s kingdom, bounds to seaward,
Phrygia east and upland, the Hellespont vast and north…

Origen asks Greeks to read the Christian Scriptures as they read Homer …

He who approaches the stories (i.e. Homer’s etc.) generously and wishes to avoid being misled in reading them will decide which parts he will believe, and which he…